Durango, Colorado is
located in the Animas River Valley
just a few
miles southeast of the 13,000-ft. high La Plata Mountains. Local
attractions include the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad,
Purgatory Resort (skiing), Mesa Verde National Park, and some of
the world’s most
frightening highways and jeep “roads”.

e.g. Black Bear Road / Black Bear Pass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bear_Road“You don’t have to be crazy to drive this road - but it helps”.For
some grizzly info, run a Google search using: “saw a car that seemed to
fall out of the sky”. Also check “Black Bear Pass” videos at YouTube.

In 1982 Norman Beerger filmed and
produced what is probably the best video ever made for anyone that
would like an armchair scenic aerial tour of the Grand Canyon. Both the
1-hour and 2-hour versions are helicopter tours accompanied by a
classical music sound track. The included notes can be used as a
mile-by-mile guide for either the 1-hour or 2-hour versions.

A large rockfall occurred in a remote area of the
upper Rio Chama headwaters sometime between Sept. 1998 and June 2005.
There appears to be no available information about the rockfall,
and the author happened to find it while browsing with Google Earth.

An illustrated world tour with examples
of river systems that cut through mountain ranges instead of taking
easier routes around them. The geologic processes involved are
“antecedence” and “superimposition”.

A brief review of the fallacies of
Creationism and “Intelligent Design Evangelism”.
Noah’s Flood is physically impossible, but that doesn’t
stop Creationists from perverting reality in an attempt to force their
religious beliefs on everyone else. Is the willful ignorance of the
Creationists a result of fear?

Is George W. Bush one of the ignorant
Young Earth Creationists?
What might happen if you combined Ignorance and Power?
If the Ignorant Armies gained control, what steps might these
Creationists take to throw us back into the Dark Ages of Religious
Theocracy?
Some highlights from a paper endorsed by a large number of Nobel
Laureates.

The funds that were supposed to be
spent reinforcing New Orleans’ levee system were instead diverted
to the Iraq war and the figurehead Department of Homeland Security.
Thus New Orleans did not have the protection it could have had when
hurricane Katrina hit.

A small militant group of abortion
protesters has been active at Planned Parenthood in Durango, Colorado.
The group is run by “Michaela Dasteel, director of
LifeGuard”, and as reported in the March 16, 2007 Durango Herald,
their activities include:

A rooted tree has a single vertex
(node) desiginated as a "root" (usually at the top). Travel along any
of the edges is directed toward the "root". A table is given showing
how many structurally different, rooted trees exist given "N" vertices.

A non-rooted tree has a free form where
no vertex has priority. A non-rooted tree can be twisted, deformed,
contorted, etc. into many shapes without altering its structure. Again,
a table is given showing how many structurally different, non rooted
trees exist given "N" vertices.

A binary tree is rooted tree where each
vertex can have a maximum of two edges that connect to lower portions
of the tree. The "root" is normally depicted at the top. Edges from any
vertex in the tree will descend either to the left (left branch) or to
the right (right branch).

An unlabeled graph may have an
arbitrary number of vertices with none, one, or more edges connecting
some or all of the vertices. If you have "V" vertices and "E" edges,
how many structurally different graphs can be constructed?

A common task for computers is to sort
data as an aid to analyzing it. Time trials and source code are
provided for: Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Median-of-three Quicksort,
Multiple Link List Sort, and Shell Sort.

Does the equation:
Ax + By = Cz
have any solution where:
1) A, B, C, are positive integers
2) x, y, z are positive integers > 2
3) and A, B, C have no common factor?
If you can answer the above question (with either a “Yes” or a “No”),
the American Mathematical Society has a $1,000,000 prize waiting for
you.
Bad News - there's no counterexample up through Cz <= 1.0E22 (and counting).

Magic Squares exist for many different
sizes and may have various qualifications on the numbers they contain.
We will look at simple 3x3 Magic Squares and take a brief look at the
“3x3 Magic Square of Squares” problem.

The standard odds, probabilities for
multiple winners, calculations for “Power Play
Multiplier”, and expected “Return on investment” are
all included as well as the math operations that are used to calculate
these numbers.

“The Great Global Warming
Swindle” is a pseudo-documentary in which British television
producer Martin Durkin has fraudulently misrepresented both the data
involved and scientists who have researched global climate. Movie
director Durkin has willfully misrepresented the facts about global
warming just to advocate his own agenda.

Global
Warming Deniers misrepresent the scientific facts of Global Warming /
Climate Change in multiple ways. The misrepresentations can take the
form of paid political propaganda, ignorance, outright lies, etc. The
people responsible for these misrepresentations can vary from “think
tanks” and lobbyists that are financed by large corporations down to
ignorant individuals. In particular: The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine is in reality - a farm, and Christopher Monckton - A vociferous Global Warming Denier Liar.

One of the false claims
that Global Warming Deniers have been making in recent years is that
“Global Warming Stopped in 1998”. As per usual, this claim is another
deliberate GWD falsehood that can be easily debunked by looking at the
actual observations.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
has been used abusively to suppress legitimate criticism of cultists
and other “questionable activities”. Here’s an
outline on how to fight back if you are ever a victim of a DMCA attack.

U. S. National Forests are a national
responsibility - illustrated with a Beetle Bailey cartoon. We now
have to pay additional fees to access our National Forest lands. This
is in addition to the federal taxes that we all pay. Previously this
tax money was used for maintenance of these publicly owned lands.

I have taken up playing the piano
again after a lapse of “a few” decades, and am trying to find piano
sheet music for some of the favorites that I played “many moons” ago. I
have been able to buy/download most of what I used to play, but would
be willing to pay for the following item in good condition. (or
alternately, full size Xerox copies.)

Note: The author (Bill Butler) of this website is a magna cum laude, Computer Science
graduate of Brown University. A brief bio can be found at message # 8 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSAtrium/
(CSAtrium is a Yahoo group for the “alums of Brown
University’s
Computer Science Department and Computer Engineering graduates”.)